The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced this morning!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, won the Newbery.
There were four Newbery Honors: The Underneath, The Surrender Tree, Savvy, and After Tupac and D Foster.
The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, won the Caldecott.
Of the 3 Caldecott Honors and 1 Medal winner, three of those titles were on our online Caldecott Hopeful poll! (How I Learned Geography and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever were the other honors on our poll, plus A River of Words, which we didn't pick.)
Full award info:
ALSC award list
Coretta Scott King awards
Ooops, forgot YALSA (including the new Morris award, for first-time YA author)
Horn Book has a nice round up.
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think its interesting the newberry is a YA book. cant wait to read it
The Newbery frequently is a YA book! The committee's charge is to consider literature for children up through age 14. Criss Cross and Kira-Kira are just two recent examples.
I really enjoyed The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman wrote it as kind of a tribute to The Jungle Book by Kipling, so I've got that on my shelf to re-read soon. He also wanted to write a scary book in which all the danger came from OUTSIDE the graveyard, not within it!
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